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Post by esshup on Oct 20, 2012 11:30:27 GMT -5
Well, that sucked!
Had 6 fly over and do 2 high circles and they left. Had 4 Canada Geese do a fly by, but too far to shoot. I think they were headed from "A" to "B" and we just happened to be on the flight path.
Saw 3 woodies and 3 mallards down one of the ditches. Tried sneaking up on them, but something spooked 1 of the Mallards and all the woodies when we were a good 200 Yds away. Were close enough to the other 2 mallards to shoot them once they jumped off of the water.
So, we only saw 9 Mallards, 4 Geese, and 5 Woodies in a 3 hr period. We're going to try a different place tomorrow.
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Post by dead-eye on Oct 20, 2012 14:13:01 GMT -5
we didnt have much luck either. we saw maybe a dozen ducks total. and a single goose. but we did manage to kill the goose and two drake wood ducks. we did not see a single bird from 8:30 till we left.
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Post by featherduster on Oct 20, 2012 16:08:54 GMT -5
Sounds like I might have had the HOT blind of the day. I saw approx. 200+teal ,10 woodies and 400-500 geese. My shooting was on the mark with only 3 shots fired 3 green wings were taken. The dog did a great job, it was grand to see the sunrise on another opener.
What I didn't see was a single Mallard, Gadwall or any other species of ducks. I would say there was about the same amount of shooting in the area as there would be on any given opener,thank God for the Teal or it would have been real slow.
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Post by esshup on Oct 21, 2012 13:10:07 GMT -5
Did better today, although we could have shot better. We had 3 Mallards pitch into the dekes 10 minutes before legal shooting time, so we watched them until a minute after it was legal. We stood up, their eyes got big and they lifted off the water. We then promptly missed.........
3 of us ended up with one Woodie short of a limit. No other ducks, and those first 3 Mallards were the only Mallards that we saw all morning.
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Post by smshinall on Oct 21, 2012 14:37:35 GMT -5
Went deer hunting this morning. Saw a few does and then decided to go jump shoot the farm pond. Ended up getting 2 drakes mallards and 2 hens. Not a bad morning! Attachments:
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